closure is that so much about the taxpayers' money lending institution is a lot of people are hearing within every third world media is fond of the dramatic from water wars when it comes to describing the future management of global water resources. the gold fever. turnstyles events into slaves. my father but also among brother involved in the monsoon and since i started working in amman i stated i look at it. this multinationals. make it a cash cow to be milked dry and if i think that in this country gold medal logie has an environmental cost which is unacceptable to local business was labeled illegal and controlled by criminals you know in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace. most almost but we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups watch for prices colombia going to pay.

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on live from moscow this is our team britain's free press discovered it could face its toughest regulation and three hundred years it crossed of the line when some papers were caught hacking the voice mails of loyalty celebrities and a murder victim polly boyko reports on the inquiry that exposed the sea the relationship between the paper's police and politicians. revelations that the british press and gauged in phone hacking sparked a wave of public revulsion and kicked off one of the biggest media scandals the u.k. has seen as times that threaten to engulf not just fleet street. but downing street as well as the allegations went all the way to the heart of the british government to douse the flames number ten ordered the creation of the leveson inquiry in order to investigate the claims and now two years in the making after a chorus line of celebrity witness says and millions in taxpayers' money the leveson

report damning about the press and heavily critical of both the police and the government force it says was that cozy relationship with. the media cameron has been shown with jeremy hunt to have been actually batting for the murdoch empire as part of all of this so you know i think that you know there needs to be a bit more of a focus on the failures of the police to actually do anything about these criminal acts lord leveson his recommendation is behind the standards of self-regulation by the press enforced by legislation and that's what critics fear could stifle the already declining newspaper industry and deal a huge blow to the freedom of the press in the u.k. is there any way in which you can be a little bit censored or a little bit monitored and most people say no with britain now in the midst of a post leveson going over is the country's two top politicians who are likely to be the most embarrassed david cameron might be suffering from some uncomfortable

flashbacks back in october the prime minister promised to support the leveson recommendations as long as they went bonkers and cut to last week i have some serious concerns and misgivings on this recommendation they break down into issues of principle practicality and necessity but david cameron's change of heart regarding the inquiries findings would be causing him half the headache that nick clegg might be nursing at the moment the liberal democrat deputy prime minister used to talk about liberal democracy a labor previous essence will be will be remembered as the government who took your freedoms away we want to be remembered as the ones who gave them but not anymore here he is off to leveson published their report i have always said that i would support lord justice leveson reforms providing they are proportionate and workable and i will come on to why i believe that is the case as far as the report's

corporate core proposal is concerned namely a tougher system of so for a glacial supported by new independent checks recognised in law. recent polls suggest that over two thirds of britons have little or no faith in the newspaper industry anymore and with revelations about the strong links between the police the politicians and the media it's not only trust in fleet street that when doing but i think going to be the word you know obviously we've not been very worried about this press for some time i think it's always going on between should keep an eye on it and be aware of it. with opinions raging for and against new legislation it's turning into a no win situation for those in power by questioning the results of the inquiry david cameron looked to his critics like he abandoned the victims of media intrusion for some good press which is what got the government in trouble in the first place. see london now let's take

a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe. a radical islamist a sect is being blamed for a series of deadly attacks on churches and buildings in northeastern nigeria there are conflicting reports about the number of casualties but at least ten people are thought to have died gunmen in cars and on motorbikes rampage through two villages in borno state targeting christian worshipers and government buildings in what are understood to be attacks by the boko haram group. disabled people in spain staged a massive protest against government cuts in health care due to austerity measures more than ten thousand people turned out for the demonstration many in wheelchairs or with guide dogs of the spanish government is struggling to deal with the country's debt crisis which has left one in four people on employ. prime minister. has won the presidential election in slovenia he got twice as many votes as the incumbent to turn the ballot was held only two days after anti austerity protests

in the capital erupted in the clashes that left fifteen people injured and it is the country's that deepening economic crisis. as that is likely to top of the new president's agenda when he takes power. america's silicon valley got where it is today through the imagination of the world's brightest brains but they didn't do it alone pioneering for an entrepreneur has helped mold its reputation but as the discovered that's in jeopardy has strict visa rules mean they're a dying breed puts the silicon valley. lots of sharing helping each other even competitors will help each other some of the biggest brands on the planet and they'll end. with america and surprisingly the majority were created by foreigners. jerry yang who was born in taipei surrogate britain whose parents came from russia when he was six or pierre omidyar an iranian born in

paris silicon valley has thrived thanks largely to immigrants people who came here with their dreams and had the drive to make them a reality they transformed this place into an unreliable for high tech development the birthplace of global pioneers one person who helps those outsiders to get a foot in the door is to ramin born and how he could blend struck she says the valley moves so fast that it seems skilled foreigners springing up left right and center that she ad for a day and there is a simple reason such success is coming their way so many of the of the indians and chinese that come in the others they make these great companies and then they hire people so they are really giving work i think they're hungry for the words they want to succeed they're driven the valley's biggest fries came with the boom of immigrants in the ninety's that brought innovations in software and internet services the numbers speak for themselves just over half of the companies found it

in silicon valley from the mid ninety's to the mid to thousands had founders born and brought in the latest research says there is a case to one for being born inventor behind three quarters off after a new patient and like her many others getting impatient for a start up is what brought julia to palo alto her project is called smart wall and works as a messaging tool for those who want to avoid social networks most of the people that are that i see are foreigners and also there are a lot of americans that are not from here so they're also coming it's it's not a matter of nationality here is a matter of the real skills that you have but there are some clouds on the california sky currently over half of foreign born inventiveness face visa hurdles the end. knowing economic recession has broad deep fears at home and about much needed jobs going into hands that have come from abroad making it hard for many to

understand that foreigners can actually bring benefits to times when america so desperately needs them but i think that's something that white america doesn't get they don't understand why. because they don't because i think that a lot of the fears are still oh they're taking our jobs away america prides itself on being a melting pot the country where thousands flocked for a better life but u.s. immigration policy me put an end to all that my you know question r.t. and just after the break our trade talks to trade union leader bob crow who explains why the u.k. should expect a tough winter of industrial action. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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today i'm talking to paul crowe he's one of the u.k.'s most notorious union leaders he heads up the r m t the underground dreyfus union but chris. thanks for talking to us now just in the past couple of weeks your members have gone on two separate strikes train cleaners and underground maintenance workers you've gained this reputation as the most strike happy union leader why are you so quick to take action like this or not quick actually the action of mean we have to have a power of our members a secret ballot the ballots conducted in the members own arms they can vote yes or no we always put a recommendation which what they should vote modestly we recommend they do take action we give the employer seven days notice before we start the ball or when we get the result when we think of seven days now it's a month just for the ballot in process so we never actually conduct in the oceans for sign of a ballot to strike action. climbing we try to get what we can without going on

strike and for eighty percent of our members we achieve what we want without going on strike for those employers that day. and not pay as you know members a fair deal then those two options by say the you accept what the employer is offering or we say to our members reducing about it and in the mine and members say they want to fight for a pint in this let's take those two strikes as an example what percentage of your members voted in those ballots in the tube or the maintenance workers one of the workers that work on the truly northern piccadilly line there's about fifty four percent turnout on the clean is one that was around about thirty five percent thirty seven percent thirty seven percent doesn't sound like very many know me and we would like more people to vote but they got the opportunity to vote some people don't vote because they want to see what the others are doing but when you look at the local elections in. a local parents there are making decisions on people's

council tax and local rates and local decisions that are below ten eleven percent of the electoral vote transport strikes can be some of the most disruptive even the short ones that we see now how do you justify make. people's lives a misery when essentially all they're trying to do is get to work one on one we always apologize i mean we actually support the traveling public who we don't want to cause misery to them we want to get them from a to plea for peace to get them to work or to see their loved ones in hospital or to enjoy themselves socially we want the railways and the buses to work in good for the traveling public but in the diary you know you can't make an omelet and they should crack aches and if your movie involves mounts of people on a public metro system to the soon as there's a problem then there's chaos but it takes two to tango be in the day you know it's the employers fault as well that we take action if the employer negotiate a proper someone with us then we would say action but sometimes you know you have

to stand up and side with the offending party with the thing inside with defending conditions and it does cause disruption i mean and some so i'm says that economic position because the employees come to the tribal and they go show it seriously of us it's not your job to make these negotiations work without going on strike yes i mean our job is to actually go and try and persuade the employer the fair argument and hopefully that the argument is conceded by the employer in a lot of occasions there aren't is conceivable the employer of occasions the employer and ask compromise and we reach a settlement in some other areas the employer says they're not in the pay it's about one inch and therefore the members of the right decisions we accept what the employees do in order to stand up and for having said all that strikes do you seem to be as terrifying a prospect as they once were why do you think that is well in that are you mean it's not the terry farm in that eye is that the members are employed by the employer to do the job so once that person is not employed in your own straw it has

an effect within a company. the reality is that workers haven't got much power at all all they've got the in the dry is that the employer is going to cut their pay and conditions is to combine together to defend their selves one worker in their own can't do nothing but when workers combine and. union they came the time was all your members would have thought of themselves as working class but now there's much more of a tendency for people to refer to themselves as middle class has that affected the propensity to strike to think not really no i mean that in little way what is poor class more is middle class i don't know i mean are we explain what it means. a lot of people quickly get shares and buy the home an arm they become middle class because they're staying on the dole queue near with the same shares in their back pocket i mean the point at the financial times of reading every day if you stay in the dollar. so to me working class and middle class or the word means or another is all of you come to work when you sell your labor to the employer or the employer.

to do that work so the move is a boss's loss and if the working class is not such thing as a middle class you're now proposing another winter of discontent walkouts and demonstrations surely nothing could be more damaging to britain's prospects for recovery than that thought or no i mean the reality is. public sector workers. more you must i say for no pay was for two years they've seen their pensions go up by three percent. then they're seeing their child benefit for a lot of them being stopped and what that really means is a massive attack on the stand to live in where inflation is going up by about nine or not percent in two years some of these people are no payrolls at all and their pensions have been put up on top of that they've been asked for for the next two years to accept one percent over the next two years as well so we're not supporting when this can say it's a call to show up should with that it's about it's on that workers save enough so

enough but you're not suggesting surely that the situation here is this bad as that in their pigs country it's it's not bad for everyone but it's certainly bad for them some people those people the public sector lost their job. those people or their children if you stop those. for their pensions but i. think it is very very bad for them and for these kids these young kids now leaving school what kind of hope will they go running for them is on the dole even if they go to university and get a fifty thousand pain around their neck to clear student where they can get a job where they're going to go home and where they're pinching the baby when they retire there is no hope at all for these young kids and we feel there's a better call a future out there you're one of only three union leaders who support the idea of a general strike why can't you carry the other union leaders with you well that's not absolutely true without the leaders but certainly the unions do support the practicalities of looking at a general strike at that so you see congress this year a resolution was passed that we look at the practicalities of it there may be that

a prosecutor is me that we can't but we certainly should look at it on top of the unions don't they so it doesn't worry me being the minority in the minority most more life but find that later on in life the minority position or took is now the majority position people support me it was years ago that people would be said seen dead with nelson mandela there every single poll in the world was to be seen with nelson mandela because it looks so sexy and progressive so are things can change the fact is that these young kids and on the part this forever more they're not really have a lot of time on the dole and what we really see is all the gains that was made since world war two in this country a national service comprehensive education a social studies that's all be massively eroded and therefore the only option we've got or is to either give our children a worser saw a or like air fathers and grandfathers and grandmothers and mothers gave us

a better society here more of you in life is to make things better for people not worse you talk about the practicalities of a general strike i think people would like to know what you look out before you endorse that i dare well number one is sure they're legal restrictions in this country. there's been a. a doctor produced boy professor keith you're in pain john hendy q.c. leading barristers who are sighing but you came very clearly will strike it's been international law where scientists have a look at the stars sets it see if we can do it what are the repercussions of going to hit was that. what you were prepared to support so there you should be looking at the executor so you see i decided there will be ready by the general council we mean it's months and we'll be old you would not only will be arguing that if people can't persuade me that they can't ever general strike then we should be proceed now to name a die in the spring called general strike there hasn't been

a general strike for eighty six years how do you expect to carry the general public for a general strike in twenty six probably not of us can remember it or certainly don't but i've been a couple of days of action since then the seventy's for example five dock workers were put in prison called part of your five and the two you see general council called a strike i list these people were taken out of prison there's also the director that we had last november on the thirtieth which is a massive demonstration we had the message demonstration this year a couple of weeks ago a massive demonstration both in london a couple of weeks ago also in clans and belfast as well so i think there's massive matter support and support generates and when people start seeing the attacks. it's not be able to afford to go to university their kids not be able to get social housing their mothers not be able to get moved or moons or the social benefits

being a role the child benefit being stopped off and we see that there is got to do something about it and i think. is that you are you nineteen and loads of people this country from different walks of life society that the government. this is a wrong and they're going down the abyss really ice we put them out there because now and kids back to work what do you say to accusations that your your bellicose attitude is destroying not just the are empty but the union movement as a whole that these strikes and walk out sometimes over the welfare of just one single worker is what led to us all falling out with the union movement back in the seventy's for number one we're certainly not wrecking the arm to your membership going up from fifty two thousand when i got elected. and now we need doubled. over fifty percent in ten years and certainly we've achieved on the best priorities. across the bridge in this great i mean we go in one world we insights well that's

the reason you join the union because that work maybe you tamara and you expect your union support you if you was being dismissed so i mean look i hope our top is the workers at the pile in the spring for the ballot in the spring for using their indoctrination if so. what we do in the di is make it quite clear we all try and try and persuade the poles that crazy. we will work money. with certain times of our life from the moment. we call want to go into the home we would love to revamp its i saw in everything. but once the employer takes their position and their position is not acceptable to our membership members then we give our members for it or don't fight if you don't fight then you have to put up with the party sign we do want to fight when you weighed in on the floor if her chancellor george osborne having first class in a train with the wrong take it is it that you think that even the person who holds

the second most important state post in the country should be travelling out of an apex if you say now not so often care less if you travel first class or trial first laws so it's on members working a first class that's not the issue the issue was the why that you spoke to the member of. style and say you know i'm always i'd say that you know i am you know i'm busy following a busy. person said toward his boat together on his boat together the various everyone else thank you very much thank you our.

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gold fever. turns thousands into slaves. must follow but also among others involved in the monsoon and since i started working at the mine i stayed here a look at it. says multinationals. cash cow to be milked dry i think that in this country metallurgy has an environmental cost which is an acceptable local business was labeled illegal and controlled by criminals you know in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace. we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups what price is colombia going to pay. the people of the modest effect on r.t. .